{"id":1071,"date":"2010-08-13T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T06:55:59","slug":"customer-update-mark-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2010\/08\/13\/customer-update-mark-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Update &#8211; Mark Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Davis, from outside Melbourne, Australia, had a busy last winter building a very interesting and innovative carbon fiber guitar. He recently purchased a second EGS bridge, so I am looking forward to seeing what is in store. Mark is active at the Aussie Guitar Gear Heads forum and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitargear.net.au\/discussion\/index.php?topic=22063.0\" target=\"_blank\">thread documenting this whole build<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>This guitar has a core of Australian pine-like wood King Billy and is fully carbon fiber. It has several fairly unique features, such as pickups mounted out of view from behind (to give an un-interrupted CF top) and glued on frets (again to not ruin the fibers of the CF weave).<\/p>\n<p>Mark writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The total weight of this guitar is 1.3kg or 2.875lbs.\u00a0Pickups are Adeson Icendiary in the bridge and a Fenton Weill in the mid position.\u00a0Switching is single \/ single and split h\/b in series , and bridge h\/b.\u00a0Frets are hardened SS and glued on.\u00a0Nut is home made to suit purpose as are the knobs. I new exactly what I was aiming for from the beginning with the hidden P\/U&#8217;s this was due to the fact that I wanted uninterrupted fibers running all the way to the bridge This creates the problem of getting the strings close to the body so as the P\/U&#8217;s work.\u00a0A simple mold was made that creates the top of the guitar, and a mold for the fret board.\u00a0Its a piece of laminex bent and reinforced on the sides, with a bit of design work the center forms a 16 in radius. The rear of the blank was then laminated with a combination of uni and woven cloth. Peel ply was applied over to control wet out. 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